Ian McDonald
Ian is also a freelance copy-editor and proofreader for a variety of publishers – both in the UK and overseas.
He has also worked on book-production in collaboration with photographer Siobhán Doran, and has contributed illustrations to publications.
Publishing
Curriculum Vitae
Download a PDF of Ian’s general editing CV; he also has specialist CVs covering Architecture, Art & Photography, Academic works and Technical/Financial publications.
Editing
Ian undertakes copy-editing and proofreading, mainly for architectural/art books but also for more general history and cultural works as well as academic publications.
His work has ranged from the architecture of Louis Kahn and Nicholas Grimshaw – through ancient Egyptology and the sculpture of Henri Matisse – to a detailed account of the drafting of the 4th Geneva Convention and a definitive social history of the Irish pub.
He specialises in overview editing and language improvement – particularly for authors for whom English is a second language.
Ian is also available to add polish and professionalism to reports, brochures, websites and promotional material.
Writing
Ian contributed the Introduction and Architectural Overview essay – ‘From Trade Winds to Transoms’ – to: Houses That Sugar Built: An Intimate Portrait of Philippine Ancestral Homes, photography by Siobhán Doran and house descriptions by Gina Consing McAdam, for ORO Editions San Francisco.
He edited and co-wrote e-magazine ARTicle – Cultural Life on the Edge for the ARTists Pembrokeshire group from 2009 until 2011, as well as contributing to architectural periodicals RIBA Journal, Architecture Today and the Welsh magazine Touchstone.
He also contributed an article to Artist & Illustrators magazine’s ‘Finishing Touches’ feature on his own working practice.
Links to Published Work
ARTicle features ‘Cosmic Landscapes‘ (Summer 2009), ‘Public Spirited? Artworks in the Civic Realm‘ (Winter 2009) and ‘Powder Power: Anish Kapoor in New Delhi‘ (Spring 2011).
‘Schiedhelm’s Legacy‘ in Architecture Today (June 2011), on working in an iconic Berlin architectural practice.
‘Finishing Touches‘ feature in A&I magazine (Jan 2004).
‘World Service‘ feature in RIBA Journal on working in the Indian city of Bangalore (Aug 1998).
‘Assembled Identity‘ – report from Calicut, south India, for Touchstone magazine (April 1998).
Graphic Design and Illustration
Ian’s publishing work also encompasses illustration.
He contributed cartoon visuals to the online toolkit for pioneering healthcare charity Solva Care: his character of ‘local pirate’ Long John Solva went on to feature in health-themed information sheets during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
He also drew cartoon illustrations for the 2005 architectural publication Well Built? (RIBA Publications), warning against the dangers of unsafe methods in the construction industry.
‘Look Out … There’s a Motorway About!’
Leaflet for transport amenity group Glasgow for People
‘Tolerances’
Illustration for Well Built? A Practical Guide to Building Failure (RIBA Publications)
‘Ocean Colour Seen’
Poster for events for Pembrokeshire Fish Week 2014
Publisher Client List
The American University in Cairo
Cairo / New York
Laurence King Publishing
London, UK
Bloomsbury / I B Tauris Publishing
London, UK
Lund Humphries Ltd
London, UK
Brill Publishing
Leiden, Netherlands / Boston, MA, USA
Merrell Publishers Limited
London / New York
British Museum Press
London, UK
Park Books
Zurich, Switzerland
Design Museum
London, UK
Phaidon Press
London / New York
Lars Müller Publishers
Zurich, Switzerland
UCL Press
London, UK
Akkadia Press (Rizzoli partner)
Edinburgh, UK
Continuum Publishing
New York / London
Edward Elgar Publishing
Cheltenham, UK
Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Geneva, Switzerland
Birkhäuser Verlag
Basel / Berlin
Thames & Hudson
London, UK
RIBA Publishing
London, UK
Irish Academic Press / Merrion Press
Kildare, Ireland
PICTOR Publishing
Mumbai, India
University of Colorado Press
Boulder, CO, USA
Marg
Mumbai, India
Art Dubai Group
Dubai, UAE
V&A Publishing
London, UK
Berghahn Books
New York / Oxford
Solva Care
Solva, Pembrokeshire, UK
Pembrokeshire County Council
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, UK
Building Research Establishment (bre)
Watford, UK
Transport Research Laboratory
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
International Institute of Strategic Studies
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
Rome, Italy
